This Friday, January 6, 2012, our speaker will be Kelly Penwell.  Kelly is Program Manager at the University of Memphis’ Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation.  According to the CEI’s website:
Our mission at the Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation (CEI) is to assist our clients become innovation catalysts who have the ability to proactively recongnize oppurtunities through societal trends and key technologies. 
What does that mean? Kelly is going to explain it all to us.  She is a former Rotarian and Paul Harris fellow, so she is familiar with how our organization …

This Friday, November 11, 2011, Dr. Steven Bares will be our speaker. Dr. Bares is Executive Director for Memphis Bioworks. Memphis Bioworks is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing a bioscience center of excellence in the Memphis area. Their work is outstanding, as one can see by perusing the website.
Their mission? “To establish the Memphis region as an International Bioscience Center for the development and commercialization of bio technologies.”   And they seem to have been making great strides toward that mission. Their unique combination of combining bioscience, developing the infrastructure, …